RAINBOW WORLD FUND
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Mission Statement
RWF’s mission is to promote peace, unity, and hope by leading the LGBTQ movement in participating in humanitarian relief efforts.
About This Cause
Founded in 2000, Rainbow World Fund is the world's first and only all-volunteer, LGBTQ-based humanitarian aid organization. RWF works to help people affected by natural disasters, hunger, poverty, disease, oppression, and war by raising awareness in, and funds from, the LGBTQ community to support both LGBTQ and non-LGBTQ people locally and around the world. RWF has donated nearly $5 million in humanitarian aid such as financial grants, food, water, medicine, medical equipment, and art and school supplies. RWF's aim is to promote world peace, unity, and hope by helping people in need while increasing positive visibility of the LGBTQ movement. RWF serves those most in need, regardless of race, religion, political belief, or sexual orientation. RWF creates visibility. As LGBTQ people we know the tremendous power of coming out. RWF provides a platform and a united voice for LGBTQ compassion and concern to be seen and heard throughout the world. We are changing the way the world sees us. There are still a lot of misconceptions about LGBTQ people. Much of the world sees us as being just about sex, drugs, and materialism. Our gay identity and contributions to society need to be visible. We need public support to achieve full civil rights. The visibility that RWF provides allows people to see that LGBTQ people are engaged and positively contributing to the world. We are about showing the world who we really are and what we care about. RWF elevates gay consciousness. We reach out beyond the LGBTQ community to share what HIV/AIDS and our civil rights struggle has taught us about coming together as a community in caring, giving, and loving. We have a lot to offer the world. RWF puts our highest beliefs and values into action. We provide our community with an opportunity to effect real global change. RWF builds bridges. We provide leadership and build community by uniting LGBTQ people and resources with others throughout the world who are working to heal our planet. RWF’s global partnerships allow the communities we serve and our partner agencies to become more aware and open to the LGBTQ community. RWF brings LGBTQ people together who believe in the sacredness of life and believe that together we can heal the world. RWF provides the opportunity to affect real global change. RWF changes the world. We believe that to change the world for the better we must begin by changing our own collective consciousness. We do this starting at home, working within the LGBTQ community by educating ourselves, our families, and friends about world need and how we, as powerful individuals in a united community, can work together to heal our world. RWF's Recent Accomplishments RWF has distributed over 4.1 million dollars in humanitarian aid (supplies and grants). Food aid for Hurricane evacuees. Some examples of our work include: Funding 1 million pounds of food aid for Hurricane Katrina survivors, emergency supplies for the South East Asia tsunami, medical supplies and financial aid to various projects in Guatemala, water projects throughout Central America providing safe drink water to hundreds, thousands of pounds of medicine, medical supplies, and school supplies to communities in Mexico, a landmine eradication project for Cambodia, an HIV/AIDS case management program in South Africa funding the monthly salaries of rural HIV peer educators, a computer lab to a Guatemalan middle school, a benefit concert for Haiti, traveling to Washington DC to advocate on Capitol Hill for development and aid issues, and giving thousands of stuffed animals to children in hospitals, schools, and orphanages.